Besides all of the usual horrible things about those cakes... Cake #2 has GREY icing on the border???? Grey??? I mean, seriously, who ever heard of decorating a cake with grey icing? At the very least, it looks rancid.

I was just thinking of this yesterday while I was decorating my 5 year old's birthday cake. The words weren't perfectly centered, but at least I didn't do anything like this (well, the "y" in birthday was a little close to the edge).

Seriously, it would be nice if they'd issue a spelling test, and maybe a spatial relations test to cake decorators. Though cakewrecks wouldn't be nearly as funny that way. :)

Even aside from the bad spacing and fat lettering (whatever happened to the piping tips with thin holes?) what's with the random lettuce leaves on the first cake?And poor QueenJ, not only is her name messed up but it looks like they made the border out of drywall mud.

Okay, we need to have this awful cakes being made so that we have this wonderful site. But how can any bakery let those WREAKS out of the backroom let alone out the main door. Golly how can they keep their jobs, are there no bosses overseeing the work. Oh well, its sure gives us fans a great laught to start the day. Thank-you!

I love this blog. I've lurked forever. Thought about posting 100 times, but never did. My extreme passion for cake has now taken over...

Everything about Queen J's cake has me clawing my face skin off. Beginning to end! From whipping "icing" to horrid candle placement and color coordination! I'm also willing to bet it started with a yellow cake.

I've never said this about a cake before...I don't want to eat it. I want to KILL it!!

I used to love getting hand made with love greeting cards from my 5 year old just like this. Maybe bakeries are now dropping cakes off at the nearest kindergaarten for that final touch. In fact some of the previous posts confirm this - including dropping off....Norine

I saw a cake for you guys today but I didn't have a camera with me. FAIL for me. WIN for Boys & Girls Clubs of Grand Rapids since they got a nice cake dripping with caramel. I mean a white cake with a FLOW of caramel on it-- like a brown glacier leaving an irregular dent in the cake on its way to flowing over the sides and SQUISHING AGAINST THE PLASTIC COVER. That much caramel... on a white cake with little white dollops. ...why?!?!

Strategery, ha! Did you see the Man V Food episode where he's eating some frightening 16ish-patty cheeseburger in some place like Boston and this stupid blonde college girl comments that his eating tactics were, "Good strategery?" Maybe she works at one of these bakeries.

@Esty, isn't cursive writing what too many people see spray-painted on walls?

#1 When you write the first (and smaller) of two words and find that it takes up half the cake, that ought to be a clue that the rest ain't gonna fit. That's where our friend, Mr. Scraping Knife, comes in, accompanied by lots of 'cursive' language.

#2 The border looks like glazier's putty. For that great linseed oil taste that people crave! Once the border was decided on (and the drugs really kicked in), the rest sort of followed.

#3 Yes, nothing says 'happybirth day' like gray roses.

#4 'GROUNN DHOG' is the correct spelling and parsing on Mars, which is also where the observance originated.

#5 This may explain what has been happening to the fireflies -- they're being captured and used to produce glow-in-the-dark green icing. Just the thing for your '70' birthday.

#6 As with #2, I'm getting a strong 'hardware' vibe. This one appears to have been piped with a caulking gun. Continuing that theme, the surface beneath the inscription (in the few places it can be seen) appears to be burled walnut. This isn't a cake, it's a plaque! So that's the trouble: instead of home ec, the order went to shop class!

I can't brain right now these cakes have struck me dumb.. lol what the heck are these wreckerators on thinking that doing that to cakes?? Maybe they figure people would be so happy for cake that they wouldn't care if it even had a bad word on it which I am sure you could find a wreck that did somewhere lol.

Well, I'm sure 'Kirstd' enjoied her cake, despite the fact her wreckerator can't spell, or even write.Clearly, what we need is a computer-style icing. If you make a mistake, you can just press backspace, change the text size and try again. It would even come with spellchecker. The only downside is we wouldn't have as much to laugh at.

Okay, the lettering on Queen J's cake is bad, but what's up with the tangle of balloon strings in the corner? How hard is it to make a straight line attached to a glob of frosting? I think even I could do that.

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